Winners of the 2006 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced at a ceremony this evening at L.A. Con IV, the 64th World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim, California.

NOVEL

Spin, Robert Charles Wilson
(Tor)

NOVELLA

"Inside Job", Connie Willis
(Asimov's Jan 2005)

NOVELETTE

"Two Hearts", Peter S. Beagle
(F&SF Oct/Nov 2005)

SHORT STORY

"Tk'tk'tk", David D. Levine
(Asimov's Mar 2005)

RELATED BOOK

Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop, Kate Wilhelm
(Small Beer Press)

Doctor Who: "The Empty Child" & "The Doctor Dances"
(BBC Wales/BBC1; Directed by James Hawes; Written by Steven Moffat)

PROFESSIONAL EDITOR

David G. Hartwell

PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Donato Giancola

SEMIPROZINE

Locus, Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong & Liza Groen Trombi, eds.

FANZINE

Plokta, Alison Scott, Steve Davies & Mike Scott, eds.

FAN WRITER

Dave Langford

FAN ARTIST

Frank Wu

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo]

John Scalzi

In addition to the awards listed above, Special Committee Awards were presented to Betty Ballantine and to Harlan Ellison. The Big Heart Award was presented to Forrest J Ackerman, and will heretofore be renamed the Forrest J Ackerman Big Heart Award. The First Fandom Hall of Fame Award was given to Joe Hensley. Takayuki Tatsumi presented the previously announced winners of the Japanese Seiun Awards, Greg Egan's novel Diaspora and Ken MacLeod's story "The Human Front".